Morgan Ridgway (they/them)
As a Research Associate and ACLS Leading Edge Fellow, Morgan supports various applied research and communication projects with a focus on qualitative and narrative analyses. They work primarily on projects related to the Direct Care Worker Equity Institute and the Direct Care Worker Story Project.
Morgan is a multidisciplinary historian with a mixed-methods background in discourse analysis, archival research methods, and creative writing. They bring experience conducting long-term archival and narrative research on urban organizing with an eye toward the ways identity informs how and why people create resources necessary to support diverse community members and their needs.
Prior to joining PHI, Morgan was a lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University where they taught undergraduate courses in American Studies and Ethnic Studies related to colonialism, gender, and Indigeneity, as well as methods courses in archival and literary approaches. Previously, they were an Andrew W. Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Predoctoral Fellow, Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Graduate Fellow, and general editor for the poetry magazine Kissing Dynamite. As a sociocultural historian, their broader interests are in environmental justice, gender and community labor, and Indigenous rights in the United States. Morgan received their PhD and MA in History and a Graduate certificate in American Indian Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They also received their BA in Psychology and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Swarthmore College. They are based in Cambridge, MA.
